title: Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Academic hospital medicine (AHM) groups continue to grow rapidly, driven largely by clinical demands. While new hospitalist faculty usually have strong backgrounds in clinical medicine, they often lack the tools needed to achieve excellence in the other aspects of a faculty career, including teaching, research, quality improvement, and leadership skills.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To develop and implement a Faculty Development (FD) Program that improves the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and scholarly output of first-year faculty.
  
  
  METHODS
  We created a vision and framework for FD that targeted our new faculty but also engaged our entire Division of Hospital Medicine. New faculty participated in a dedicated coaching relationship with a more senior faculty member, a core curriculum, a teaching course, and activities to meet a set of stated scholarly expectations. All faculty participated in newly established divisional Grand Rounds, a lunch seminar series, and venues to share scholarship and works in progress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our FD programmatic offerings were rated highly overall on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 highest): Core Seminars 4.83 ± 0.41, Coaching Program 4.5 ± 0.84, Teaching Course 4.5 ± 0.55, Grand Rounds 4.83 ± 0.41, and Lunch Seminars 4.5 ± 0.84. Compared to faculty hired in the 2 years prior to our FD program implementation, new faculty reported greater degrees of work satisfaction, increased comfort with their skills in a variety of areas, and improved academic output.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Building FD programs can be effective to foster the development and satisfaction of new faculty while also creating a shared commitment towards an academic mission.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA. nirajs@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Niraj L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Sehgal
authors.forename: Bradley A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Sharpe
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Auerbach
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Wachter
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000592:standards; D005544:Forecasting; D020445:Hospitalists / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards